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US 10,376,894 B2Granted
Grinder
OwnerGlennon C. Sontaginventor
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A grinder having a rotor and fan assembly mounted in a housing having one or more of the following features: a cutting shaft and a fan shaft which are concentric and are rotated by separate motors; a housing formed in two sections, with a line of division passing through the axis of rotation of the shafts and mounted on rollers; ping pong shaped cutting hammers; and deflectors attached to the inside of the housing and to a deflector assembly on the outside of the housing. The deflectors are movable vertically and horizontally with first and second motion controllers for adjusting the spacing between the cutting hammers and the deflectors. A programmable logic controller is used for independently controlling the speed at which the cutting shaft and fan shaft are rotated and the spacing between the cutting hammers and the deflectors to produce a desired particle size reduction for a selected material.
In a grinder having a vertical, rotatable cutting shaft having a plurality of stacked cutter discs driven thereby and a fan assembly mounted below the cutter disc in a housing, the improvement comprising mounting the fan assembly on a separately rotatable fan shaft rotating within and concentric with the cutting shaft, said cutting shaft and said fan shaft independently driven, said housing having a top wall with a feed stock input chute and a bottom wall with a discharge opening, said fan assembly mounted above the bottom wall in the discharge opening and below a lowermost of the plurality of stacked cutter discs.
In a grinder having a vertical, rotatable cutting shaft having a plurality of stacked cutter discs driven thereby and a fan assembly mounted in a housing, an uppermost cutter disc having a smaller diameter than a next most cutter disc positioned below the uppermost cutter disc, said fan assembly mounted on a separately rotatable fan shaft rotating within and concentric with the cutting shaft, said cutting shaft and said fan shaft independently driven, said housing having a top wall with a feed stock input chute and a bottom wall with a discharge opening, an upper bearing for the cutting shaft mounted on the top wall and a lower bearing below the bottom wall, said fan assembly mounted above the bottom wall in the discharge opening and below a lowermost of the plurality of stacked cutter discs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.